> I am going to throw my 2 cents in. > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Nick W <lists-wi...@atomsplash.com> wrote: >> I've been experimenting with both the last 2 weeks. I've read that VMWare >> will have a 16GB limitation in it's next free version, which is pushing me >> to Xen/XenServer. Just ordered parts for iSCSI SAN. >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Xen and Vmware are pretty good. I would not suggest using a Linux distro >>> and would go with a bare metal (vsphere, xen's alternative) >>> > > FOSS virt stuff has come a long way since I first started using it 5 > years ago. There a couple FOSS projects that I recommend to try out. > > The first and most mature is called Proxmox VE > (http://www.proxmox.com/products/proxmox-ve) it is a bare metal Linux > distribution that can be installed on most any server supporting Intel > or AMD virtualzation instructions (most do). Proxmox is a Debian based > distro so anything you can do with Debian can be done with Proxmox. > This has lead to some cool things in terms of HA and replication that > the community has built. The Proxmox feature set is not to bad, it is > no Vmware enterprise plus but does the job. It is in active > development has a nice easy to use web interface and supports > clustering. Future releases (like the upcoming 2.0 release) will > include things like HA out of the box. > > The second project is called OpenNode (http://opennode.activesys.org/) > is similar to Proxmox in a few ways. OpenNode like Proxmox can do both > OpenVZ and KVM. It is a CentOS based hypervisor and can be clustered. > It is younger that Proxmox and the out of the box feature set is less. > I however like how easy it is to customize and script various common > tasks. It follows the standard way of doing things in Linux better > than Proxmox does (IMHO) and is also lighter weight, I install the OS > on flash based disks so space is a premium for me. It also will allow > you to take a generic CentOS install and convert it to a OpenNode > member easily. > > Both can use iSCSI or other type of shared storage for VM's, I have > had great success with using iSCSI with both distributions, NFS not as > much but that was do to some implementation stuff. > > As with anything I recommend you test stuff out and see what fits your > environment best. That being said either of those projects will get > you up and running fast with a minimal learning curve. > > > I can answer more questions if you have them.
Good info, thanks. If I go with Proxmox can I later switch to Opennode by simply copying my virtual machines over to Opennode? Is OpenVZ preferred over KVM for linux applications that do not care about the shared kernel? Initially I am just thinking a dual or quad core socket 1156 processor with say 8 to 16G of RAM and a few terrabytes of disk in software RAID1. I am assuming the nice thing about containers is I can easily move everything down the road to better/faster hardware? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
